Why don't pro athletes play multiple sports anymore?

>>76973679
cause the meta rn is to max your stats as a human. Have to wait for the new patch for multiple classes again

Because they make enough to only focus on one full time now. No sane person would want to play football and baseball at the same time now considering how many games are in a baseball season and how physically demanding football is

Probably because schedules have gotten bigger and more emphasis on conditioning between seasons, in the UK it used to be common for athletes to play Football in the winter and Cricket in the summer, now there's pretty much no off season in Football and Cricket players jet off to the Southern Hemisphere and play matches during our winter.

>>76973679

The vast majority of people can't even play one sport on a professional level. It only makes sense that very few it would even be possible to do so.

And it's also just not that rewarding. Lebron could probably have had an nfl career but his legacy will be much better as an nba mount rushmore candidate than a meme like bo jackson.

>>76973998
have you evr seen some athletes try to do anything else? pathetic
>insert any high nba draft pick trying to throw out the first pitch
they look like theyre throwing with the wrong arm
also watched some softball game and they all swung like literal retards

>>76973679
Baseball isn't even a sport. If a football player started playing chess or cards on the side you wouldn't say he's playing multiple sports.

>>76974080
baseball is a sport

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>>76973679
because it destroys your body

>>76973679
Many football players quarterbacks usually, have played baseball in high school and/or college but football has more glory and is easier to get into whereas the road to the major leagues is long and you don't make as much money until you go from minor league to majors and even then you don't make much unless you're a star. John Elway was a highly touted baseball prospect but he chose football because he would spend years in the minors before getting called to majors learning how to hit fastballs

>>76974080
>chess
Hmm why mention chess? Brainlet definitely detected

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>>76973679
They can't all be GOAT's

>>76973679
jewish agents write it into the players' contracts so they don't lose out on 10+ years of paydays like what happened with Bo

>>76974248
>chess being a sport
Then I guess Starcraft and math problems are sports too

>>76974121
Delete this

>>76974035
Depends on the athlete, AB De Villiers, a cricketer, has no handicap at golf, was the #1 ranked tennis junior in SA and captain of SA schoolboys rugby team. Could have played 4 sports professionally

>>76974102
No, it's an amusement, a hobby.